Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster Bar...

Seafood specialties and land lubber treats.

Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster bar offers both outdoor and indoor dining on the water at Phillippi Creek.

There’s a water view from almost anywhere inside or outside the restaurant on their open air deck.

I’ve
had lunch or dinner here numerous times and I can see why they’re
consistently voted among restaurants in Sarasota as “best seafood
restaurant and raw bar.” Plus, it's a fun place. You can bring the kids
here too.

Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster Bar offers a casual and
fun, family-friendly dining atmosphere and an extensive menu of
favorites, cooked any way you like them cooked: broiled, steamed, fried,
blackened, baked and grilled.

There is definitely a menu filled with delicious seafood here and
the fact that you can have the option of how you’d like it cooked means
that you can really ‘customize’ your meal.

What’s good at Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster Bar?

I hope you don’t read this while you’re hungry, especially if you’re a
seafood lover. I have found that Seafood lovers are their own special
brand of folks!

Well, let me give you a brief rundown of their extensive menu: Now, as I’ve written about in other reviews here in my Sarasota Dining Guide, I like to treat myself to a nice shrimp scampi dinner on occasion.

At Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster Bar they have their own
unique recipe, as do the others I’ve reviewed. The Scampi entrée here
comes with plenty of shrimp in lots of garlic, olive oil and butter
sauce.

Of the several different Shrimp Scampi reviews you’ll find among the
Sarasota Restaurants reviewed on Escape-to-Sarasota, this one is
definitely the one with some “kick.” And it may be a bit strong for some folks’ taste, but if you like it this way it’s simply delicious!

They use a lot of chopped garlic in this recipe and it’s swimming
in amongst the shrimp in the butter and olive oil sauce. It’s good, but
it may be a bit strong for some with a more delicate palette.

Here’s another delicious tip about Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster Bar: You also get a choice of side dishes with your meal: French fries, parsley potatoes, baked potato or rice, with hush puppies and coleslaw.

Take my suggestion here. Make sure you order the parsley
potatoes. I don’t know how they make them so good but they’re simply the
best. I would order them alone. They’re that good.

While they have lots of seafood specialties, the parsley potatoes
are a specialty in their own rite and go great as a side dish with
anything I've ever ordered here.

The menu also features a wide selection of baked, charbroiled, fried or
steamed platters with both seafood or land lover’s selections; on the
charbroiled menu, for example, there's Filet Mignon and Chicken.

They also supply a “Healthy Heart” menu for those on a restricted diet.

For those whose tastes don’t run toward seafood, there are selections from burgers to steak and chicken sandwiches.

There’s a lot to choose from on the Phillippi Creek Restaurant and Oyster Bar menu for sure!

There's full bar service, large dining rooms and picnic style tables inside and outside on the open air deck.

And with this being one of the Sarasota top restaurants, year
after year in local polling, it is usually filled at dinnertime with
hungry seafood lovers so there may be a bit of a wait, so plan
accordingly with your time and appetite.

The food, service and quality at this casual, family fun and friendly
Sarasota restaurant are very good. Plus you can sit outside or inside
and have a water view of Phillippi Creek from about anywhere in the
restaurant.

Directions: Take U.S. Rt. 41 to the Phillippi Creek area of
Sarasota. Located at 5353 S. Tamiami Trail (also known at U.S. Rt. 41),
look for Phillippi Creek Village on the east side of the road, at
Phillippi Creek, south of downtown Sarasota and just south of the
Landings Shopping Center, and if you’re coming by water, they’re at Marker 72.

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